This activity contains 5 interesting passages to scramble and re-arrange correctly. Students will use logic and transition words like "for example", "however", and "finally" to determine the correct order. Great activity to reinforce text structures!
Each passage contains six sentences. The pass

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This NO PREP, no fluff packet is designed to help students to learn or review the basic parts of a paragraph and paragraph

Graphic Organizers for Grades 5-9:
Graphic organizers make teaching challenging reading and writing skills a snap! (See scrolling preview for some close up views.)
Wait! This set of organizers is also included in a bundle which contains 52 graphic organizers and exemplars: “Graphic Organizer S

This complete, differentiated unit provides point of view passages, activities, writing, and assessment. Kids learn to determine point of view, defend it with evidence from the text, and consider alternative perspectives. You can choose from two parallel files. Option 1 (multiple choice) asks studen

Four Square Writing Through the Year
Do you love to use four square writing in your classroom? If you do then this product is perfect for you.
This pack is made up of different themed Four Square writings for every season and holidays throughout the year. It helps young writers express their though

Spelling, sentence construction, paragraph writing, and more. Three booklets filled with visual cues that will help struggling students. Perfect for small group discussions or as reminders to place on student desks. What's included?
SPELLING
• Beginning Sounds Cue card featuring the alphabet with

5 (five) Sentence Paragraph Graphic Organizer / Teach your student how to write awesome paragraphs!
In the state of Texas students are tested on composition in 4th grade. As a former 4th grade teacher it would had been awesome if my students came to me with knowledge of how to construct a nice pa

Thanksgiving Day Booklet for students to practice what a nouns is by writing about a person, place and thing that they are thankful for! (animal and idea also included)
What's Included?
Outline for students to plan each paragraph
A separate page for writing about a PERSON they are thankful for
A se

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER SUPER-SAVER PACK Each product in this pack is sold separately here: It’s All About Evidence
Quick and Easy Graphic Organizers for Multi-Level Learners (Book and Templates)
SET 1: It’s All About Evidence
Graphic organizers make teaching challenging reading and writing skil

The Answer – Cite – Explain (ACE) writing strategy is designed to help students organize their writing and support their thinking to form constructed responses for informative/explanatory compositions.
This resource is designed to be a double sided bookmark for easy student reference. It include

Roll a Monster Drawing and Writing Project! This is FUN!
Roll a dice to determine how many body parts and write down number on body part template. Then use the word bank for sentence construction or paragraph construction! Created by Jan McCleskey, MA, OTR from The Handwriting Clinic in Plano T

Can they build it? Yes, they can! Writing sentences becomes easy and fun with this construction themed unit. This common core aligned product is designed to be used in teacher-led small groups. This is a perfect addition to your literacy center rotation.
Students will learn what it takes to ma

Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores by James Howe is a book about friendship. The three main characters are "the greatest of friends, the truest of friends, the now-and-forever-I'm-your sort of friends" until they find out that boys and girls are not supposed to play together. Their solution to thi

Paragraph Building Blocks Basic
This set will help your students write up to a 4 sentence paragraph independently. It will make writing both easy and fun for them and boost their confidence. It will allow them to work independently during your writing block while you confer with individual student

This document is developed by a learning support teacher to assist teachers with improving students' writing skills. The PDF document includes the following:
(1) Pre-writing strategies i.e. brainstorming, group work, vocabulary and comprehension activities.
(2) Strategies for building success
(3) S

Get results with powerful point of view practice. First, address the basics with two worksheets. Then present longer differentiated passages in two formats: multiple choice or constructed response.Created by master teacher Brenda Kovich, these activities are classroom tested and kid approved. They a

Alexander may be childrenÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½s author and adult novelist Judith ViorstÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½s best known character. He stars in 3 of her books, but Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day is by far the best known of the trio. This story is a popular read aloud, and many students enter seco

This nonfiction booklet is great to use when studying Ancient China, the Great Wall, The First Emperor, The Forbidden City, or a novel that sets the story in Ancient China such as Magic Tree House Day of the Dragon King. This is a great supplemental booklet to incorporate nonfiction with your Ancien

This six-page handout compares the parts of a paragraph to a "Hot Triple-Decker Cheeseburger" and explicitly instructs students with descriptions and examples on how to construct a paragraph using the five steps of the writing process.
Pages 1-2- Acronym to remember the parts of a paragraph and vi

This is the 1st 6 weeks of a year long common-core aligned interactive notebook writing program for 9th and 10th grades that improves student writing through the deliberate practice of sentence imitation (generative grammar). Each day, the teacher guides students through a scaffolded imitation of a

This 41 slide flipchart was designed for use through activinspire and is designed to cover between 2 and 3 weeks worth of primary writing instruction. Each slide includes the objective. The flipchart teaches how to answer common core questions that require short answer and extended response questi

A printable/reproducible document with information on constructing paragraphs. It's an excellent resource for middle school students, especially for second language learners. The document contains examples and graphic organizers.You will also find a free matching powerpoint presentation on my websit